Automatic Stock Recognition in Lathe V 8

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Automatic Stock Recognition in Lathe V 8.1

Mastercam Lathe's Stock Recognition has additional benefits as well. If you reorder any operations, Lathe will regenerate all the associated stock boundaries and toolpaths. You no longer need to chain the outer boundary when roughing a casting or making a grooving toolpath on geometry which has been chained.You no longer need to chain the outer boundary when roughing a casting or making a grooving toolpath on geometry which has been chained.

Lathe V8.1 incorporates a powerful new stock recognition feature. Each operation will review any prior operations and generate a toolpath only for the actual as-cut stock that is left. For example, if you center-drill then face a part, Lathe will only create a facing operation for the area left after the drill cycle is complete. This creates highly efficient toolpaths, and helps eliminate the guesswork of what stock is left on your part.

Greater Stock Control Lathe

V8.1's new Adjust Stock feature gives greater control over where your stock starts and stops. For example, if you have a contour with a face that ends before a centerline, you are able to use the "adjust stock" buttons to complete the face without creating additional geometry. By giving you the ability to quickly adjust the stock to a desired shape, Mastercam Lathe gives you total control over tool motion while cutting

New Verification In Mill V8.1

Have you ever wanted to save the verification results of a specific toolpath? Now you can! Mastercam Mill V8.1 can now save the results of a verification session, letting you open it later and verify another toolpath using the original result. This is especially useful in complex parts where you want to pay close attention to how the finish pass interacts with as-cut rough stock. It also helps save time, because you don't have to re-run a roughing toolpath every time you want to see the results of a finish toolpath.

Mastercam will save and open your sessions as STL files. You can also use any other file with STL triangles, surfaces or solids (IGES, X_T, MC8, etc.) as a your initial stock. This lets you use any shape as your verification stock - perfect for verifying castings or other odd-shaped parts

Network Licensing Available Soon

Mastercam V8.1 will offer the availability of network licensing. This will give a group of Mastercam users, who are all connected to the same network, the ability to run Mastercam from any station on that network without moving any software protection device between computers. Stay tuned for more details.